Judge bails Trump out of special master plan that would have forced uncomfortable submissions in court
cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/trump-special-master-request-doj-inventory/
Pillow salesman and Trump ally Mike Lindell says FBI served him with subpoena for contents of his phone
cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/mike-lindell-phone-seized-fbi-subpoena-my-pillow/
Oath Keepers lawyer and federal judge in screaming match in court over US Capitol riot case
cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/oath-keepers-judge-mehta-argument/
Trump Chief Of Staff Meadows Reportedly Texted About Accessing Voting Machine Data
forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/26/trump-chief-of-staff-meadows-reportedly-texted-about-accessing-voting-machine-data/
An 'annoyed' Melania Trump stays mum on Mar-a-Lago search as she promotes NFT business
cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/melania-trump-mar-a-lago-search/
Quick Glance: DOJ says it's "likely" Documents from Mar-a-Lago were hidden, and efforts were made to hinder the investigation.
- On August 8, more than 100 documents with classified markings were removed during a search of Mar-a-Lago.
- Though Trump's lawyers have claimed "months of cooperation" before to the FBI's investigation, Justice Department officials on Tuesday provided a detailed and potentially damning contrast.
- During the Aug. 8 search, Justice Department officials claimed they uncovered more than 100 documents with classified markings, which was more than double the number turned over in response to the federal subpoena in June.
- Check out the Department of Justice's court filing.
National Archives wanted to share classified docs from Mar-a-Lago with FBI and intel community for damage assessment months ago
cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/national-archives-classified-docs/
Quick Glance: Five Key Points in Donald Trump's Lawsuit Against the DOJ Over the Mar-a-Lago Search
- Trump's lawyers have also requested the appointment of a special master to preserve the former president's rights.
- In very sensitive instances, such an appointment is sometimes made, and the special master is asked to evaluate seized files to ensure that investigators do not view protected information.
- Trump's lawyers said that this was insufficient.
- Rights under the Fourth AmendmentThe former president's lawyers believe that the search at Mar-a-Lago violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Justice Department ordered to release redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit
cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-raid/
Quick Glance: Karl Rove Rejects Fox Host's Interpretation of Unsealed Mar-a-Lago Affidavit
- When it comes to the redacted affidavit used to explain the FBI's search for sensitive papers at former President Donald Trump's residence, Fox News contributor and former Trump campaign adviser Karl Rove wasn't buying what Fox was selling on Friday.
- "One is there is a letter, don't know who it came from, but one of President Trump's lawyers apparently comes in June and says you got all the classified material."
- Smith stated, quoting Fox News legal commentator Jonathan Turley, that "the affidavit did not establish that the Trump people were wholly uncooperative or non-communicative."
Analysis: Biden's student loan plan opens a fresh midterm front: President Joe Biden's plan to slash some student loan debt could help millions of ...
cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/biden-student-loan-relief-2022-midterms-analysis/
Quick Glance: Two Floridians have pleaded guilty to stealing Ashley Biden's diary.
- One suspect contacted another, saying they could "make a SHIT TON of money" if they stole and sold Ashley Biden's personal stuff.
- The Department of Justice stated on Thursday that two Florida people pled guilty to stealing Ashley Biden's journal and other personal belongings and selling them for $40,000 to the conservative nonprofit Project Veritas.
- On September 14, 2020, Kurlander texted Harris, "They of course come I across as the nicest people in the world," referring to Project Veritas.
- "Project Veritas' news gathering was ethical and legal," the organization claimed in a statement after the guilty plea.
Justice Department releases unredacted Barr memo detailing decision not to charge Trump with obstructing Russia probe
cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/barr-mueller-report/
Quick Glance: The Department of Justice issues a letter recommending that Trump not be charged with obstruction of justice.
- The Justice Department released a once-secret 2019 memo on Wednesday that recommended against prosecuting then-President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling in 2016.
- The Justice Department had not yet issued the Mueller report, which was separated into two volumes — the first dealing with the investigation into Russian meddling, and the second with whether Trump improperly sought to impede the probe itself.
- "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice," Mueller's team said, "we would so state."
Fauci to leave federal government in December after decades as nation's top infectious disease expert
cnn.com/2022/08/22/politics/anthony-fauci-government/
Quick Glance: Dr. Fauci has announced that he would leave his government position in December.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that he will leave the federal government after more than 50 years to "pursue the next chapter" of his career.
- Fauci earlier stated that he planned to retire before the end of President Biden's first term.
- President Biden congratulated Fauci in a statement on Monday for nearly four decades of public service and "helping our country navigate health crises ranging from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19."
- One of the first calls the president made after being elected in November 2020 was to ask Fauci to serve as Chief Medical Advisor and oversee his coronavirus response team.
Judge sets Friday deadline for Trump to refine his request for a special master: A federal judge in Florida has given former President Donald Trump until Friday ...
cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/trump-special-master-deadline/
How to qualify for Biden's new student loan forgiveness plan: President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his plan to address student loan debt ...
cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-qualify/
Quick Glance: Republicans Are Enraged by Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
- President Joe Biden proposed a plan to eliminate up to $10,000 in federal student debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year, $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, and a loan payment deferment extension until December 31, 2023.
- Biden stated on Twitter that the change is meant to provide "working and middle class families breathing room as they prepare to resume federal student loan payments in January 2023."
- Currently, federal student loans account for 92 percent of total student debt.
- In response, both former President Trump and Vice President Biden permitted debtors to postpone loan payments.
DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant's probable cause affidavit
cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/
Quick Glance: The Justice Department objects to the release of an affidavit used to search Trump's home.
- Prosecutors argue that releasing it will jeopardize the investigation into Donald J. Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office.
- WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department objected on Monday to the release of the affidavit used to authorize the search of former President Donald J. Trump's Florida property, claiming that it would "compromise future investigative steps" and "likely chill" cooperation with witnesses.
- According to a search warrant made public on Friday, federal investigators retrieved top secret papers from Mr. Trump's residence last week as part of an investigation into suspected violations of the Espionage Act and other laws.
White House officials privately express concern about classified information taken to Mar-a-Lago
cnn.com/2022/08/19/politics/white-house-concern-classified-information-mar-a-lago/
Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Unsealed legal records reveal Trump's legal woes
- A federal judge unveiled records Thursday that reveal additional details about Donald Trump's legal problems with the Mar-a-Lago search.
- Prior to Thursday, the only information regarding the laws that agents suspected Trump of violating came from the warrant, which was disclosed last Friday."Clearly, the FBI currently believes Mr. Trump not only took properly marked classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, but also kept them and resisted turning them over when confronted by the government," Moss said.Even if the information is declassified, the FBI might possibly use obstruction charges to prosecute Trump, he added.
First on CNN: US Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato leaves agency: US Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato left the Secret Service on Monday ...
cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/tony-ornato-leaving-us-secret-service/
Analysis: Trump turns his legal battle after FBI search into political rallying cry
cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/trump-fbi-search-political-rallying-cry-analysis/
FBI took 11 sets of classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, including some highly classified material
cnn.com/2022/08/12/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-investigation/
Quick Glance: Donald Trump is being probed for espionage charges.
- The order, which was released on Friday afternoon, reveals that the Justice Department is looking into whether Trump violated many federal laws when he transported official records from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago property.
- The documents were unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday after the Justice Department sought that they be made public.
- They were made public an hour after the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of secret documents from Mar-a-Lago.
- Trump's attorneys claim he used his authority to declassify information he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
Herschel Walker knocks new health care and climate law: 'Don't we have enough trees around here?'
cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/herschel-walker-criticizes-climate-law/
North Dakota judge blocks abortion trigger ban day before it goes into effect: A state judge in North Dakota on Thursday blocked the state's so-called ...
cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/abortion-north-dakota/
White House lawyers interviewed by FBI: The FBI interviewed former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin earlier this year as ...
cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/pat-cipollone-patrick-philbin-interviewed/
Analysis: The same Joe Biden suddenly looks different : Joe Biden is no more or less capable a president than he was two months ago. His staff is no more or less ...
cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/president-biden-winning-streak/
Former President Donald Trump invokes Fifth Amendment rights and declines to answer questions from NY attorney general
cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/trump-deposition-ny-attorney-general/
Quick Glance: Donald Trump claims the Fifth Amendment and refuses to answer questions in the New York investigation
- Former US President Donald Trump has stated that he refused to answer questions while testifying under oath in a civil investigation into potential fraud at his family firm by the New York State Attorney General.
- "'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'" "I now know the answer to that question," said the statement.
- Attorney General Letitia James is leading the inquiry into Trump's real estate business operations, which he has dubbed a "witch hunt."
- Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have already been called into the investigation.
Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search: The FBI search was partly engineered to avoid a spectacle, according to people briefed ...
cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/justice-department-officials-silence-mar-a-lago-search/
Supreme Court issues rare emergency order favoring voters challenging elections rules
cnn.com/2022/08/19/politics/supreme-court-georgia-election-rules/
Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet
cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/trump-white-house-notes-toilet-photos-cnntv/
Senate passes bill to help veterans affected by burn pits : The Senate voted Tuesday night to pass a long-sought bipartisan legislation to expand health care ...
cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/senate-vote-burn-pits/
New Yorker: Milley was set to excoriate Trump in unreleased resignation letter drafted after Lafayette Square photo-op
cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mark-milley-resignation-letter-lafayette-square/
Kinzinger: Subpoena of ex-White House counsel 'probably bad' for Trump: Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone having been subpoenaed by a federal ...
cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/kinzinger-cipollone-subpoena-trump-doj-2020-cnntv/
Biden signs new executive order on abortion rights: 'Women's health and lives are on the line'
cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/joe-biden-abortion-executive-order/
CNN Poll: 75% of Democratic voters want someone other than Biden in 2024 : A new CNN poll finds 75% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want the party to ...
cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/cnn-poll-biden-2024/
Exclusive: Trump lawyers in talks with Justice Department about January 6 criminal probe
cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/trump-justice-department-january-6-criminal-investigation/
Federal grand jury subpoenas ex-Trump WH counsel Cipollone in 2020 election probe
cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/pat-cipollone-grand-jury/
First on CNN: Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials
cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/defense-department-missing-january-6-texts/
Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on phones of 10 individuals
cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/secret-service-investigators-text-messages/
Hunter Biden was repeatedly warned of tax problems, a CNN review of emails shows: Hunter Biden had a high-end income and lavish lifestyle. But he struggled with ...
cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/hunter-biden-emails-invs/
Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski dies in car accident that also killed 2 staffers
cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/jackie-walorski-died-indiana-republican/
Quick Glance: Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski and two staff members were murdered in an automobile accident.
- Jackie Walorski was murdered in an automobile crash in her northern Indiana district on Wednesday, along with two members of her congressional staff and another individual, according to authorities.
- According to the sheriff's office, Zachery Potts, 27, of Mishawaka, Indiana, Emma Thomson, 28, of Washington, D.C., and Edith Schmucker, 56, of Nappanee, Indiana, were also killed in the crash.
- Potts and Thomson were members of Walorski's congressional staff, according to Cummings.
- Indiana mourns her demise, as well as the unfortunate deaths of her employees Emma Thomson and Zach Potts.
New video from January 6 committee reveals Trump crossed out lines in speech condemning lawbreakers
cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/january-6-committee-new-video/
Trump family depositions in New York attorney general investigation delayed due to Ivana Trump's death
cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/trump-depositions-delayed/
Quick Glance: Ivana Trump's life in pictures: four marriages, Hollywood appearances, and controversies
- Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, died at the age of 73 at her home in New York.
- "It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Ivana Trump," the Trump family said in a statement on Thursday, according to ABC News and The Washington Post.
- "Our mother was an incredible woman - a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and a caring mother and friend," the statement said.
- "Her mother, three children, and ten grandchildren will miss her terribly."
Trump signals 2024 decision has come down to timing of an announcement: In perhaps the strongest signal yet that Donald Trump is plotting another run for the ...
cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/donald-trump-2024-decision/
John Waldron says Fed making right moves to tackle rising inflation: "I think it's important to reset the price of money in the economy, which is something the ...
markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/inflation-outlook-john-waldron-fed-making-right-moves-economy-rates-2022-7
GOP promoted gala with activists who tried to overturn election: The fundraising gala headlined by Russ Ramsland and Phil Waldron was promoted on the...
houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/Harris-County-GOP-promotes-event-with-activists-17269562.php
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